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Google and responsive design

Google wants Internet users to "experience the full richness of the web." Part of this experience is browsing the web on mobile devices. How about including whether a site uses a responsive design as part of a website's Pagerank, Google? Check.

It will no longer be sufficient to have a conventionally designed mobile version of your site, it must use a responsive design. But that's only the short of it. Implementation counts two. For example, redirecting users from a desktop page to an irrelevant (or non-corresponding) page on the smartphone-optimized version will also lead to downgrading your website pagerank. Ouch.